I don’t understand how people are not seeing through the game of Brett Morgen and Courtney Love, but I suppose most people swallow what they are fed with and don’t make an effort to find out if this is even close to the truth. No, the truth doesn’t matter for most people and this is very sad.
Brett Morgen, director of Montage of Heck, spoke about his movie in the last issue of NME and declared that Kurt Cobain ‘died of a broken heart’ … but the most interesting part is this whole segment:
‘I found his actual suicide letter, which was unexpected. I just opened up this heart shaped box and there it was. And I was like ‘Based on everything I’ve witnessed, this makes no sense.’ Kurt didn’t have a problem with quitting music; he talked about it openly. If he wanted to stop performing, he would just stop. Nothing was leading up to that suicide letter.’
Morgen must have done some research to do his documentary, and it is interesting he reached this conclusion, ‘nothing was leading up to that suicide letter?’ But Morgen has to explain the suicide so he finds an explanation:
‘It was ultimately about his search for family. He didn’t feel like he had a family, but he desperately wanted one. So the second that Nirvana broke he asked Courtney to have a child. You’re 25 years old, you’re the biggest rock star in the world – having a baby isn’t a very common reaction, you know?… You can see in the film he put all his eggs in one basket. And so when that was broken in his mind, there was this sense of humiliation. Kurt Cobain died of a broken heart…. He thought his wife cheated on him, and her and Frances were all he had. The film invests a lot in trying to understand why Kurt would react the way he did to betrayal. We try to find the square root of it.’
So according to this guy, Cobain killed himself because he thought Courtney Love was cheating on him? And he says this despite the recordings of phone calls that are on the internet and very easy to find, I am talking about these phone calls between Courtney Love and Tom Grant. There are many of them and during phone call number AFT-975, Courtney talks about the note from Rome. This episode is widely reported as a first suicide attempt — although it was never proven to be a suicide — and conveniently Courtney got rid of the note written by Kurt at the time. And Tom Grant asked her why she destroyed it: ‘Because it wasn’t really nice… It talked about getting a divorce,’ Courtney replied. And it’s not hearsay, it’s on tape here!
I wonder whether ‘Montage of Heck’ mentions that Courtney destroyed the note,… probably not, it’s too embarrassing. I also wonder whether they mention Rosemary Carroll, Love’s attorney, telling Grant that Courtney wanted her to get the ‘meanest, most vicious divorce lawyer’ she could find a few weeks before his death. Probably not.
I don’t pretend to know what happened but there’s much more to the story than ‘Kurt had a broken heart so he killed himself’… He wanted to leave Courtney Love, he wanted a divorce, but the movie surely will never touch that part because Courtney Love re-writes history every time she is allowed to talk.
